WAYA-FM
Radio station in Ridgeville, South Carolina, United States
WAYA-FM (100.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Ridgeville, South Carolina, United States, and serving the Charleston metropolitan area. It airs the WayFM Network and its Christian contemporary format, owned and operated by the Hope Media Group.
WAYA-FM's transmitter is sited on Kenyon Lane off Interstate 26 in Summerville. Programming is also heard on low-power FM translator W267BK on 101.3 MHz in Mount Pleasant.
01History
The station signed on the air in September 1968. It was licensed to Walterboro, South Carolina. The call sign had been WALD-FM, the sister station to WALD 1060 AM, which is now dark.
William Saunders owned R&B radio station WPAL 730 AM, which had long served the African-American community in Charleston. In 1994, Saunders bought the FM frequency and moved it to Charleston. He changed the format to urban adult contemporary, with the call sign WPAL-FM.
The Hope Media Group acquired the station in 2010. It switched the station to non-commercial Christian Contemporary music, supplied by its WAY-FM network. The call letters changed to WAYA-FM. Most stations owned by Hope Media have WAY in their call signs.
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- WAYA.jpg by Unknown author, Fair use
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